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Prof. Somdev Banik

Professor
(Stage - V)
Date of Birth : 18/01/1972
Contact Numbers : +91 9436531090
E-mails : somdev[at]tripurauniv.ac.in
Qualifications : M.A., Ph.D.
Topics Taught : Amercan poetry, drama, novel, non -fictional prose. Indo-Anglian Poetry 18th Century British Novel Popular Literature ( Science Fiction and Horror Stories) Modern Poetry Research Methodology and Theory.

Journal Publications (year wise) :

Re-narrating National History in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines In The Criterion: An International Journal in English, (www.the-criterion.com) , Vol-7 Issue-3, (June 2016); pp. 128-133. ISSN: 0976-8165.
“Writing is Music”: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh. Literary Review, The Hindu, May 21, 2000.
Book Review of Poetry from Nagaland, Ed. Dept of English, Nagaland University Dialogue, Vol-II, No-II, Dec-2006, UP.ISSN 0974-5556
Book Review of And the Story Begins…by Anita Singh, MPASVO,UP, 2007 Dialogue, Vol-5, No-I, June-2009, UP. ISSN 0974-5556
Giving the Lie: Ingenuity in Subaltern Resistance in Premchand’s short story ‘The Shroud’. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies on Humanities. Vol.1, No.2, Autumn 2009. ISSN-0975-2935.
De-constructing the Tribal Identity. Sailo & Sarkar (Ed.) Issues of the Marginalized Tribals in Tripura, New Delhi: Supriya Books, 2012. Print.(Pages:50-56), ISBN:978-81-909143-5-2
Understanding the Fear of the Text in a Post-colonial Classroom Indian Journal of Applied Research, vol-3, No-4, April 2013. (Pages:39-40) ISSN:2249-555X www.ijar.in
Recovering for whose sake? Studying Abduction and Recovery in the context of Partition. Ghanshyam & Chakraborty (Ed.) Indian Fiction since Independence: Reading from the Periphery, New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2013. (Pages: 61-70) Print. ISBN: 978-93-82186-17-5
Worshipping into Subjugation: Studying Non-violent Violence against Women in Post-Partition Fiction Asian Academic Research Journal of Social Science and Humanities, vol-1, No-10, 2013. (Pages:109-116) ISSN:2278-859X www.asianacademicresearch.org
Stinking Food Stigma: Changing Ethnic Foodways for Acculturation International Journal of Social Science Research, Vol:2, 2013. p.69-72. ISSN No. 2325-7911
Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Critique of Christianity in Petals of Blood IJHSSI, Vol:5 Issue:1, Jan 2016, p.12-15. ISSN No. 2319-7722
Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Notion of Historical Change in Petals of Blood IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol-21 No.1, Jan 2016. ISSN No. 2279-0837.
Deconstructing the Hegemony of History: A Study of Postcolonial Resistance Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol-6, Issue:2, Feb 2016. pp.703-705. ISSN No. 2249-555X.
The Rise of the Dictator: Corrupting Influence of Power in Achebe’s Anthills of Savannah The International Journal of Culture, Literature and Criticism, Issue No: 13/April 2016, pp: 61-71. ISSN: 0976-1608
The Origin of Theatre in the Princely State of Tripura BharatiyaPrajna: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Indian Studies, (http://www.indianstudies.net), Vol-1, No-1, 2016, pp.42-46. ISSN No: 2456-1347.
Representation of Disabled Characters in Literature International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies (http://www.ijelr.in), Vol-3, Issue 2, 2016, pp. 198-201. ISSN: 2349-9451 (Online), 2395-2628 (Print).
Stereotyping India’s North East: Examining the “Paradise Unexplored” in Tourism Discourse Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (ISSN 0975-2935), Vol. IX, No. 3, 2017
Representation of the Predicament of Tea Garden Workers in Jaya Gowala’s short play “GhumBhanganiya Din” Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science Volume 7 ~ Issue 2 (2019)pp.:38-40 ISSN(Online):2321-9467
Literature Teaching for Affective and Psychomotor Skill Development in the Learner—An Alternative Paradigm SARASWAT-The Tripura University Research Journal, Vol.-I, Issue- 01, December 2020

Book Publications:

Phoenix: A Text Book of Compulsory English Book (Co-Editor) Published by Orient Blackswan. 2015 ISBN No. 978 81 250 5753 6
Book titled: In Search of True Freedom: Negotiating Colonial Imaginings in the Postcolonial Fictional Space Book (single Author)
Translation
Published by Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012. Print. (Pages-210) ISBN:978-3-8443-9796-3
AGIYE CHALO
(A Play by SudhanyaDebbarma )
Book (single Author)
Translation
Published by Tribal Research and Cultural Institute, Govt. of Tripura, Agartala, Tripura. 2017. ISBN:978-81-932589-1-0
DEBONA TITUN
(A Play by Kamal Raychaudhuri )
Book (single Author)
Translation
Published by Tribal Research and Cultural Institute, Govt. of Tripura, Agartala, Tripura. 2017. ISBN:978-81-932589-2-7
MUYA: SHOOTS OF IMAGINATION Book (single Author) Published by Niharika Publishers, Agartala, 2017 ISBN: 978-93-86781-04-8
Teaching English Literature/ Language: Perspectives from a non-Metro University InEnglish Studies in India,Eds. B.Mahanta and R.Sharma Book Chapter Springer Nature,Singapore,2019 ISBN:978-981-13-1524-4

Seminar:

Participated as Resource Person 9th-12th August 2019 Sahitya Akademi, NECOL, Agartala 4 Days National Translation Workshop for translating Ram Kumar Mukhopadhyay’s Bharat Joda Kathan katha
Participated as Resource Person 18th-19th March 2019 IGRMS, Bhopal and Dept. of English, TU Seminar on Cultural Heritage of Tripura
Participated as Resource Person 11th-13th January 2018 R.G. National Institute of Youth Dev. Ministry of Youth Affairs. 3 Days TOT (Training of Trainers) program on Gender Equity
Organising Secretary 2nd-3rd November 2017 Department of English, TU Sponsored by DONER, GOI 2 Day National Conference The English Text in a North East Classroom: Pedagogy, Politics and Sociology of English Literature Teaching
Participated as Resource Person 6th-7th April 2017 UGC Sponsored Women’s Study Centre, TU National Seminar on Violence Against Women
Participated as Resource Person 25th-25th February 2017 Jhanji HNS College, Sivasagar, Assam & ICSSR National Seminar on Re-Reading of the Discourses in Contemporary Indian English Literature
Presented paper on Representation of the predicament of Tea Garden Workers in Jaya Gowala’s short play GhumBhanganiya Din 8th-9th September 2016 Dept of English, Assam University International Conference on (Re)Envisaging India’s Northeast: Ethnicity, Identity, Culture & Literature
Presented paper on The Lost World of Balyashiksha: Relooking at the Bengali Primer in the Present Context 4th-5th July 2016 Dept of English, TU, Sahitya Akademi National Seminar on The Silence of Dying Voices: Literatures on the Verge of Extinction
National Seminar on Texts, Manuscripts and Oral Traditions of Tripura 16-18th March 2016 Dept. of Sanskrit, Tripura University in collaboration with IGNCA, New Delhi. Presented a paper on The Oral Tradition of Bengali Folksongs in Tripura
International Seminar on AdwaitaMallabarman: Jiban O Sristi 3-4th March 2016 Department of Bengali, Tripura University, in collaboration with Dept. of Welfare of SC/ST, Gov.t of Tripura. Presented a Paper on Conflicting Voices of Caste Consciousness in Titas Ekti Nadir Naam.
National Seminar on Deterrents on the path of students’ comprehensive development with special reference to Tripura 20-21st Jan 2016 Govt. Degree College, Kamalpur, Tripura. Presented a paper titled Holistic Education: An Illusion or Reality
National Seminar on Women’s Rights in the North East India 17th Jan2016 Dept. of Bengali, DDE, Tripura University, Presented a paper titled “Working Housewives” and their Ignored Rights
National Seminar on Imaging and Imagining the North-East: Discourses on North-Eastern Literature, Culture, Creativity and Criticism 22-23 August 2014 Dept. of English, TU Presented a paper titled Imaging North-East as a Tourist Destination: A Study of “Incredible India” Tourist Brochure on the North East
Seminar on Women and Science 25th Feb 2014 Women’s Studies Centre, TU Presented a paper titled From Orality to the “Scientific”:The Politics of Subjugation of Women
International Conference on Social Inequality and Literature, 16-17th Jan 2014 Dept. of Bengali, TU ICSSR Presented a paper titled Demonising Disability: Practicing Social Inequality through Literature
A National Conference on Issues of the Marginalized Tribals in Tripura Jan 20-22 2012. Organised by Govt. Degree College, Kamalpur, Tripura and sponsored by UGC, Nero, ICSSR, NEC. Presented a paper titled “Deconstructing the Tribal Identity.”
A National Conference on Post-Independence Indian Fiction in English . July 22-23 2011. Organised by Dept. of English, Women’s College, Agartala and sponsored by UGC, Nero Presented a paper titled “Recovering for whose sake? Studying Abduction and Recovery in the context of Partition.”.
A 3 day International Conference on Theory at Work: Text, History and Culture 9th-11th November 2010, BHU, Varanasi Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, & ICSSR, New Delhi. Presented a paper titled Anglicisation:Studying English Literature without the text.
44th All India English Teachers’ Conference 20-22nd December,2009 BHU, Varanasi. Presented a paper titled Decolonisation to Post-colonisation:The necessity of changing perspective for Achebe in Anthills of Savannah
Attended a Workshop on Effective Communication Skills 7-11th December 2009 Conducted by The British Council, East India.  

Research :

Smt. Suvra Bhowmik (Incomplete) Adaptation and Incorporation of Myths in Girish Karnad’s Plays Registeredon 02.01.2014
Jhuma Majumder Racist Prejudice and Stereotypes in Children’s Literature in English: A Study of Select Texts Awarded Ph.Don07.03.2018
Poumita Paul Essentialization “Past” in select novels of Ashwin Sanghi Registered on 01.6.2018
MousumiBasfore Representations of Sita and Draupadi in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English:A Study of the novels of Pratibha Ray, Ashok Banker, Chitra DivakaruniBanerjee and Amish Tripathy Registeredon 15.11.2018
Debasish Acharjee The Pedagogy of Select Soft Skills in English Literature as a means of Learner Empowerment Registered on 22.1.2019